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RSS distanceDistance Education: Use of Podcasting
White Paper Recently podcasting has moved into the distance education realm. Podcasting has become very attractive for some distance education programs because it provides flexible access to material and potentially could help students fit more learning time... [06 Jul 2007]
Distance Education Strategy: Mental Models and Strategic Choices
White Paper What issues do distance education (DE) leaders believe will influence the future of DE? What are their colleges' DE strategies? This paper compares DE strategic thinking and strategic choices at three community colleges. [20 Apr 2005]
Distance Education: A Brief Overview
White Paper Most people think of online courses taken through Blackboard or WebCT when they hear the term distance education. However, distance education was a viable alternative to traditional education even before the Internet became popular. [11 Jul 2008]
Distance Education: Facing the Faculty Challenge
White Paper For a variety of reasons, faculty resist efforts to force them into distance learning. While individual faculty members may have individual reasons to resist participating in the latest wave of distance education, there are several reasons why... [21 Apr 2005]
Distance Learning
White Paper Distance learning, just a pipe dream not long ago, now provides an unique opportunity for 21st-century colleges and universities to redeļ¬ne not only its scholastic offerings, but its image as an innovative and technologically progressive... [24 Feb 2004]
Distance Higher Education in the Arab Region: The Need for Quality Assurance Frameworks
White Paper This paper considers endeavors to disseminate distance higher education in the Arab region. In particular, three different structures are examined: distance education programs provided by traditional universities, open or distance education... [20 Apr 2005]
Distance Education Quality: Sucess Factors for Resources, Practices and Results
White Paper The current growth in distance education is a result of a convergence of factors. With improvements in the technology, distance courses are now more realistic, engaging, inexpensive, and varied. Technology-mediated distance education research has... [03 Jul 2008]
Distance Working - The Corporate Perspective
White Paper Many large organisations have been slow to adopt distance working as an accepted way of operating. This paper describes the experiences of the UK subsidiary of Digital Equipment Corporation, who have adopted distance working as a key part of their... [24 Feb 2004]
Distance Learning: Promises, Problems, and Possibilities
White Paper Distance learning and its relationship to emerging computer technologies have together offered many promises to the field of education. This paper will examine some of the current research and thought on the promises, problems, and the future... [20 Apr 2005]
Distance Learning, Collaborative Education, and Community Outreach Made Possible with Windows Media and Microsoft Producer
White Paper With the release of Microsoft Producer for PowerPoint 2002, many pieces settled into place for a successful collaboration between UAH and ESTACA and for other distance learning projects both on and off the UAH campus. [24 Feb 2004]
Distance, Skill Deepening and Development: Will Peripheral Countries Ever Get Rich?
White Paper This paper models the relationship between countries' distance from global economic activity, endogenous investments in education, and economic development. Firms in remote locations pay greater trade costs on both exports and intermediate imports... [20 May 2005]
Distance Learning Brings the Zoo to You: Students Receive Live Interactive Zoo Experience
White Paper Students learn about animals in a very personal way from the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo distance learning program, using wireless technology, provided by Cisco partner Total Systems Integration, Inc. [06 Jan 2008]
Distance Learning in Spring Independent School District
White Paper To provide needed distance-learning services, the Spring Independent School District (ISD) would have to transmit video across its 22-campus network. Spring ISD is centered 20 miles north of Houston, Texas. [27 Sep 2005]
Distance Education: Better, Worse, Or as Good as Traditional Education?
White Paper This study examined pre-test and post-test scores, homework grades, research paper grades, final exam scores, final course grades, learning styles, and ages of distance education and traditional students enrolled in a business communications class... [24 Feb 2004]
Distance Education at Degree-Granting Postsecondary Institutions: 2000-2001
White Paper This study presented in this paper, conducted through the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Postsecondary Education Quick Information System (PEQIS), was designed to provide current national estimates on distance education at 2-year... [16 Apr 2005]
